Network icon in status bar showing not connected?

[liamwli]

Hello again, seven forums

I have an annoying error

If you look at the picture below, you will see that my network icon shows that I am not connected, even though I am??

Does anyone know a way to stop this? It has been happening for a couple of days, over loads of reboots

 

[FliGi7]

Did you recently change/update/install anything on the computer around the time this started happening?

 

[liamwli]

Did you recently change/update/install anything on the computer around the time this started happening?

Yes. Virtualbox was uninstalled, along with some other things. I dont know which one it was, but I used to see the same picture I see when connected to a LAN, with a cross in the bottom left.

 

[FliGi7]

Without knowing what "some other things" are, it sounds like something got corrupted with that uninstall of Virtual box (which loads virtual networking components that interface with your network hardware). I would try a System Restore to a time previous to this, when it worked, and try uninstalling again (and reboot after uninstallation).

Or it could be an issue with those other things you uninstalled/changed. What were they?

 

[Petey7]

Try reseting the notification area icons.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/13102-notification-area-icons-reset.html

 

[boohbah]

i havent a solve but instead of reebooting try restarting explorer,

easy way...

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/179436-explorer-add-restart-explorer-desktop-context-menu.html